Override Spring:message tag with database values

Question

I am using Spring to display messages from a properties file. I would like to be able to override the tag to use a value from a database

Answer 1

I ended up creating a class called DatabaseMessageSource included below. I still need to implement some kind of caching so I don't hit the database with each call. This link was helpful too. Thank you skaffman and PrimosK for pointing me in the right direction.

public class DatabaseMessageSource extends ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource {

    @Autowired
    private MyDao myDao;


    protected MessageFormat resolveCode(String code, Locale locale) {

        MyObj myObj = myDao.findByCode(code);

        MessageFormat format;

        if (myObj!= null && myObj.getId() != null) {

            format = new MessageFormat(myObj.getValue(), locale);

        } else {

            format = super.resolveCode(code, locale);

        }

        return format;

    }

    protected String resolveCodeWithoutArguments(String code, Locale locale) {

        MyObj myObj = myDao.findByCode(code);

        String format;

        if (myObj != null && myObj.getId() != null) {

            format = myObj.getValue();

        } else {

            format = super.resolveCodeWithoutArguments(code, locale);

        }

        return format;

    }

}

I updated my applicationContext to point to the newly created class. I changed it to:

    
        
            classpath:defaultMessages
        
    
        
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